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<div>On Apr 13, 2013, at 21:34 , Stas Boukarev <<a href="mailto:stassats@gmail.com">stassats@gmail.com</a>></div>
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<blockquote type="cite">Antoniotti Marco <<a href="mailto:antoniotti.marco@disco.unimib.it">antoniotti.marco@disco.unimib.it</a>> writes:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Apr 13, 2013, at 20:02 , Stas Boukarev <<a href="mailto:stassats@gmail.com">stassats@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Antoniotti Marco <<a href="mailto:antoniotti.marco@disco.unimib.it">antoniotti.marco@disco.unimib.it</a>> writes:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">(defmacro foo (n &optional ((s &key d f) '(42222 :f 33)))<br>
`(list ,f ,n ,s ,d))<br>
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it appears to work on SBCL, CCL and LW (just changed a few things and do not have an Allegro running)<br>
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It is nice, but I believe that the CLHS says otherwise.<br>
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What do you mean, CLHS says otherwise?<br>
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<a href="http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/03_ddab.htm">http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/03_ddab.htm</a><br>
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Good catch.<br>
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And yet...<br>
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<a href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/03_dd.htm">http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/03_dd.htm</a><br>
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And yet, what? Nothing stated there contradicts the previous section.<br>
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<div><font face="Andale Mono">optvars::= [&optional {var | (var [init-form [supplied-p-parameter]])}*] </font></div>
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<div>It is true that the the next section you cite clarifies that 'var' can be a destructuring list, however, the above can be confusing; at least it was to me.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">And why is this in pro@?<br>
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Because I am a pro (albeit a small one) and this is a matter of inconsistencies in the spec?<br>
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It would appear to me that questions, which could be resolved by careful<br>
reading of the spec, are out of scope of this mailing list, but what do I<br>
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Well, I learned something I did not know, and it may have refreshed people' memories. Is that so bad?
<div>I apologize for having wasted your obviously very valuable time.
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